Japan Unveils Stimulus Package
Worth $101.7 Billion for Economy

Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Oct. 19, 2000 1:41 a.m. ET

TOKYO -- Japan's economic ministers and fiscal policy leaders Thursday decided to adopt a package of economic stimulus measures worth 11 trillion yen ($101.68 billion), of which 3.9 trillion yen will be shouldered by government expenditures through the compilation of a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year through March 2000.

The government said the package was compiled because "Japan's economy is not yet in a...